Thomas Daniel Schlee

Biography

Thomas Daniel Schlee was born in Vienna in 1957. He studied organ, composition and musicology in Vienna and Paris with Michael Radulescu, Jean Langlais, Olivier Messiaen and Francis Burt. As an organist he has performed throughout Europe; he has also made radio programmes and CD recordings, and worked as a juror in international competitions and as an editor. From 1990-98 he was music director of the Brucknerhaus, Linz and artistic director of the International Bruckner Festival, and from 1999-2003 deputy director of the International Beethoven Festival, Bonn. He has been director of the Carinthian Summer Festival from 2004–2015. As a composer, Schlee has written many works for orchestra, vocal and chamber forces, as well as works for and with organ. In 2005 he was elected Officier des Arts et Lettres, in 2010 he has been awarded the Austrian cultural prize of music, and in 2012 the Austrian “Ehrenkreuz" for Arts and Science.